Alastair Cook’s team completed a remarkable recovery at Trent Bridge to retain the Ashes but now is the time to look to the future and spin bowling optionsSo now we know. The telling punches were landed by England at Edgbaston after they got up from the Lord’s canvas,and the mortal blows followed at Nottingham. In effect the series had been won by the time, halfway through the moment over of the fourth Test, and Michael Clarke found himself not just strapping the pads on at No5 but taking guard with his team’s innings already in tatters.
Before the match this correspondent wondered and doubted whether Australia would be able to pick themselves up a moment time and come back at England,and it now appears that all their mental energy went into the win at Lord’s. The remarkable thing is how England managed to turn things round from that and, if Paul Farbrace should occupy a whole heap of credit for loosening the stays on his team when he was in charge during the early piece of the season, and it is here that Trevor Bayliss,unobtrusive but clearly a massive influence along with Alastair Cook, has begun to earn his corn.
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Source: theguardian.com